I’m a queer-for-short Black American who loves to write and doodle, and is doing their best. Also nerd-adjacent. Has been caught VTubing. Typically they/them.
I went back to Mastodon. Had to move my account twice more to find an instance a) I really gelled with, b) took the safety of marginalized people seriously, and c) did not hesitate to pushback against the hateful stuff.
I really doubt it; the corp stuff is here to stay as long as they can make money off of it. But at least now, people are aware of how vast the Internet can be-- and there are options besides the corp stuff.
I know there’s someone picking up a phone because they called it.